Crossroads of Social Science [electronic resource] : The ICPSR 25th Anniversary Volume

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eulau, Heinz.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Local Subjects:

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (188 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Algora Publishing, 2007.

Summary:

The essays in this collection analyze the successes and failures of the social sciences over the last few decades as well as on their future. The focus of the book is on generic problems, difficulties, and dilemmas in the social sciences that the contributors are uniquely qualified to articulate. Each of them has been intimately involved in the development of one or another discipline in the last thirty years or so; each has made significant contributions to that development in many ways; each has a personal perspective on accomplishments and failures, promises and needs, continuities to be cu

Contents:

Crossroads of Social Science: The ICPSR 25th Anniversary Volume; Contents; About the Contributors; Preface; Introduction Crossroads of Social Science; Chapter 1 Toward Cumulative Knowledge: Theoretical and Methodological Issues; Chapter 2 A Strange Case of Identity Denied: American History as Social Science; Chapter 3 When Social Science Findings Conflict; Chapter 4 What We Know, What We Say We Know: Discrepancies Between Warranted and Unwarranted; Chapter 5 Research Life as a Collection of Intersecting Probability Distributions; Author Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

OCLC:

476114058